Friday, October 01, 2004

 
Simona Says and the Torretta Syndrome

Thanx to AOL's screen page for coverage of the Coalition-Fed Brigade of two Islamofascistphiles released from captivity. Simona Pari and Simona Toretta were released amid rumors that a one million dollar ransom was paid.
""I said it before the kidnapping and I repeat it today," she told Corriere della Sera newspaper in an interview published Friday.

"'You have to distinguish between terrorism and resistance. The guerrilla war is justified, but I am against the kidnapping of civilians."

Torretta and her Italian colleague Simona Pari, both of them 29, were freed Tuesday, three weeks after being snatched from their Baghdad office. Berlusconi has brushed aside widespread reports that his government paid a ransom of up to $1 million.

Describing the administration of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as "a puppet government in the hands of the Americans," Torretta said elections planned for January would have no legitimacy: "During my days in detention ... I came to the conclusion it will take decades to put Iraq back on its feet."

Torretta, who lived in Iraq before, during and after the U.S.-led invasion, said she wanted to return despite her ordeal -- but would not do so as long as U.S. troops were there: "I've got to wait until the end of the U.S. occupation," she said."

It's time to pull out *all* of the coalition's civilian workers who do not stay on military bases. They might "get in the way" of annihilation of Iraqi terrorist strongpoints, and their value to the terrorist as hostages probably exceeds their value to us and Allawi. The emphasis should shift to destroying, not building up, the infrastructure(esp. water and sewage facilities)that support especially hostile populations. Given that Torretta resided in Iraq at the pleasure of Saddam, one wonders about the vetting of civilian workers. Should those scum be seen in Iraq again our guys should exhibit the "Moro reflex"-not the one normal in newborns -the *Aldo* Moro reflex: machine gun those Bitches of the Butchers of Baghdad on sight and hang their filthy corpses upside down until they rot.